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Hospital respiratory ward in Los Angeles, 1952
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Young man with a withered leg due to polio
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Child with polio, Rhode Island polio epidemic, 1960
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Patient in iron lung, Rhode Island polio epidemic, 1960
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Two children with polio receiving physical therapy
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Images like this were used to encourage polio vaccination
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Aerial view of a crowd awaiting polio immunization, San Antonio, 1962
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Child with sequelae of polio. Quote from Dr. Harry Hull
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Negative stain image of the polio virus
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Patients whose respiratory muscles were affected were placed in an “iron lung” machine to enable them to breathe
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This patient sustained upper extremity paralysis due to the due to polio caused by the poliovirus.
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This child is one of a set of twins, both paralysed by polio. Community in the Sibiti forest, Congo.
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